ROCK HILL, SC (WBTV) - Richard Jackson and his wife are returning from a trip to Charleston. He stopped to fill up in Rock Hill before heading home to Bessemer City in North Carolina

"When you get there its really expensive its 20 or 30 cents more a gallon," said Jackson.

Typically this time of year gas prices are normally lower but spending $3.42 for a gallon doesn't scare Jackson.

"The only thing that scares me is a black widow spider or a brown spider anything else does not bother me, not even 4 dollar gas, No it sure doesn't," said Jackson.

But experts think 4 bucks a gallon is on the way.

This time last year Triple A says the average price for gas in South Carolina was $2.97 a gallon.  By April of the same year the price spiked to $3.62 a gallon. 

In May 2011 gas went up five more cents.

Good news is by summer the price tapered off a little, because of summer travel. 

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Many people who have purchased new cars recently may be surprised about some new guidelines for oil changes.

Some auto manufacturers are suggested you stretch out that routine task from every 3,000 miles to every 5,000 miles now, depending on a few different factors.

Brittany Arnold was delighted to hear this, as she usually goes a few thousand miles past 3,000 anyway.

"It's all about money for me.  It's expensive to go every 3,000 miles.  So I put it off as long as I can," Arnold said.

That's fine, mechanics say, for some cars and some drivers.

"If you only drive your vehicle around town, three or four miles every day, sure you do need to change your oil every 3,000 miles," said Jeff York with Fleet Automotive on the west side of Charlotte.